Fostering scientific discovery and catalyzing innovation
Laboratory Design Expertise
Hennebery Eddy has wide-ranging expertise in commercial, corporate, and academic laboratory design. As a team of innovators, we understand the value of flexible spaces that adapt to technological change. We believe every laboratory, prep room, office, hallway, and alcove is an opportunity to promote engagement and exploration. Our work includes new construction and adaptive reuse lab projects, and the planning of research and teaching science environments.
Our lab portfolio includes commercial biotech and life sciences spaces that support cutting-edge research and development and emphasize sustainable design solutions. Corporate clients have benefited from our materials testing lab and product design lab spaces. Our academic projects include general sciences labs for university curriculum and graduate-level research and K-12 learning laboratories. Taking a long-term approach balances today’s needs while retaining an eye on providing resiliency, flexibility, and adaptability for emerging technologies and the evolution of scientific inquiry in both wet and dry lab facilities.
Eastside Innovation Hub
This wet lab in Portland’s Central Eastside Industrial District will provide 18,000 square feet of private research space for biotechnology incubator tenants, filling a niche in Portland’s rapidly developing life sciences research industry. The 40,000-square-foot adaptive reuse of this concrete and wood-frame warehouse adds a third story.
Commercial Research & Development Laboratory Design
From spaces for biotech research, tracking every movement of world-class athletes and labs for studying the durability of decorative coatings, to wear-testing materials until failure, printing 3-D prototypes from dust, and studying the physics of a golf ball as it travels over 200 mph, our success lies in the close collaboration with scientists and researchers to design for specific lab requirements while maintaining flexibility to adapt for future innovation.
College & University Labs and STEM Learning Spaces
Integrating learning into a laboratory requires sensitivity to teaching pedagogies and research protocols. Our approach is to combine technical sophistication, functional complexity, safety considerations, and human-centered experience into the design, with an emphasis on collaboration spaces, paving the way for both near-term and long-term success. Hennebery Eddy has designed more than a dozen STEM projects, with recent higher education labs projects ranging from the 220,000-square-foot Cordley Hall at Oregon State University, planned as “home for the sciences,” to Clackamas Community College’s new Harmony West Building, which includes new laboratory and STEM classrooms.
Sustainable Design for K-12 Learning Laboratories
Our labs for K-12 students support hands-on STEM learning, provide sophisticated research settings to students, and prioritize sustainable building design. Positive early laboratory learning experiences can steer young learners to explore advanced education and careers in science, and we strive to create inspirational and inviting student labs. Where possible, we include views to the outside and ample daylighting, keeping the practice of science visible and connected to the world around us. In anticipation of the high energy load of lab buildings, our emphasis on energy modeling, energy use-reduction strategies, and energy-creating sustainable design features helps minimize the environmental impact and incorporate learning opportunities for students.
